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Apr 18, 2024
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2015-2016 Vincennes University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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NURS 100 - Nursing Fundamentals
8 hrs (Sem I)
Introduces the philosophy and conceptual framework of the curriculum. Basic legal aspects, communication skills, impact of illness and hospitalization on the client, external safety, client teaching and learning, death and dying as they apply to nursing are discussed. The nursing process is taught to organize nursing care as well as to promote client health. The fundamental skills and knowledge used in basic nursing care are covered. Content focuses upon common assessments and nursing interventions to meet the basic physiological needs of oxygenation, normal (basic) nutrition, bowel and urinary elimination, activity and mobility, and sleep and rest. Comfort needs, safety needs, fundamental pharmacological concepts, perioperative care, fluid and electrolytes, and alterations associated with infection and inflammation are included. The laboratory is utilized for the students to acquire basic nursing skills. Clinical laboratory in long-term and acute health care agencies allows students to apply the nursing process when caring for the client with common health problems. Physical assessment skills are also taught in clinical. 5 lecture hours, 4.5 laboratory hours, 4.5 clinical laboratory hours.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Associate of Science in Nursing Program.
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